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ESC Volunteer Vacancies 2022
ESC Volunteer Vacancies 2022Campaigning & MovementCommunication & Social Media Campaigning CATAPA CATAPA is a movement which strives for a world in which the extraction of non-renewable resources is no longer necessary. The extraction of such
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Mechelen is the first city to sign our CTRL ALT DEL charter!
Speakers Tour 2022 Overview
Speaker’s Tour Student Event – Citizens Council: Extractivism and KULeuven
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS MEET WITH MEP’S
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS, INDIGENOUS REPRESENTATIVES OF COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY MINING MEET WITH MEP’S REGARDING EU DUE DILIGENCE LEGISLATION Our Peruvian environmental defenders, alongside indigenous representatives from Russia and Guatemala, met with MEP’s on Thursday 4th March
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Study and Lobby Working Group Launch
The Tin Supply Chain Miniseries, Part I
‘Greenwashing’ of the mining industry
Take part in the free escaperoom Re-Connect!
Ctrl Alt Del Campaign
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Become a Communication or Education Volunteer!
CATAPA’s new ESC Volunteers
The Right to Say No: Insights and Experiences of the Global Struggle against Mining
ESC Volunteer Vacancies 2021 – Changemaker for a Wellbeing Economy
ESC Volunteer Vacancies 2021Changemaker for a Wellbeing EconomyEducation & MovementCommunication & Campaigns CATAPA CATAPA is a volunteer movement which strives for a world in which the extraction of non-renewable resources is no longer necessary. The
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The EU can’t mine its way out of the climate crises
CATAPA pilot organisations commit to fair ICT
15 Days of Protests, 40 People Killed, More Than 400 Disappeared: The Colombian Government Responds with Extractivism
Virtual classes, but no Internet access: Education during a pandemic in Peru
What is happening in Colombia right now?
CATAPA Joins Europe’s largest environmental network, the EEB
NEWS: CATAPA Joins Europe's largest environmental network After several years of fruitful collaboration, CATAPA has formalised it’s membership as an associate member of the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) - Europe’s largest network of environmental
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Escuela de Primavera: Catapa’s spring school on extractivism in Colombia
ONLINE SPRING SCHOOL: Escuela de Primavera: Catapa's spring school on extractivism in Colombia April 21st - May 29th, Online Registration Learn about the struggle against extractivism in Colombia through our 'Escuela de Primavera'. This year
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Watch: The Case for Degrowth
CATAPA and Belmundo festival
'System change' This year CATAPA will again participate in Belmundo, the annual social and environmental justice festival in Gent that puts international solidarity in the foreground. Throughout March, a lot of organizations from Gent will
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Green technologies for people and planet
10 Ways CATAPA Took on the Mining Industry in 2020
Worker Driven Monitoring of the Mining Sector
Linking the Bolivian minerals to the European Industry
Who Is Killing Them
Environmental Defenders are Being Assassinated in Colombia We are activists of the organisation Catapa, which supports communities in Latin America in their resistance against extractivism. Our most important mission in Belgium is to raise
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Make ICT Fair Webinar Series 2020: Sustainable ICT Future?
Make ICT Fair Webinar Series 2020: Sustainable ICT Future? In these dynamic and challenging times, when digitalisation is an urgent and quickly progressing phenomenon, the discussion about the sustainability of our electronic devices is timelier
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The End of Naïve Europe,The Rise of Green Imperialism
Image: CRM deposits EU-27 (2020). Source: European Commission’s M(2020) 474 final. ARTICLE: Re-published from: Vázquez Ruiz, A. 2020. “Op-Ed: The End of Naïve Europe, The Rise of Green Imperialism.” Commodity Frontiers 1: 56-59. doi:10.18174/cf.2020a17975. The
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Deep Sea Mining: How Belgium is Sinking to the Bottom
Join The Communication Working Group!
We can’t mine our way out of the climate crisis, European Commission told
Changemakers for Degrowth – Re-thinking (Metal) Consumption
Webinar Series: Towards a Responsible Supply Chain for Electronics
Tailings dam collapsed in the province of Azuay, Ecuador
Schrijf je in voor de Fair ICT Awards 2020
Fair ICT Awards 2020 Vlaamse bedrijven, non-profitorganisaties, instellingen hoger onderwijs en lokale besturen die inzetten op het duurzaam aankopen of beheren van ICT-apparatuur kunnen zich tot 14 november 2020 inschrijven voor de Fair ICT Awards.
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Mineralen voor de energietransitie: naar een koolstofarme samenleving zonder verliezers
Ghost town Choropampa: Twenty Years after the Mercury Spill
Jaarverslag 2019
Ecuador: Extractivism in the midst of an Economic and Sanitary crisis – COVID-19
Towards a fairer ICT supply chain – Bolivia’s Case
Open Min(e)d International Speakers Tour 2020 – An Overview
ESC Volunteer Vacancies 2020 – Become a Changemaker on Fair ICT
ESC Volunteer Vacancies 2020Changemaker Fair ICTCampaigning and EducationCommunication CATAPA CATAPA is a volunteer movement which strives for a world in which the extraction of non-renewable resources is no longer necessary. The extraction of such materials
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Covid-19 in the Peruvian Amazon: Challenges for the most vulnerable communities of Loreto
A Review of the ICT Supply Chain from the Doculatino Film Festival 2019
Celebrate Earth Day with Chaikuni Institute
Paper: Standaarden, certificaten, en monitoringsystemen in de ICT-sector
Standaarden, certificaten, en monitoringsystemen in de ICT-sector: op weg naar een duurzame aankooppraktijk? De ICT-sector kampt met heel wat uitdagingen op het vlak van duurzaamheid. Het produceren van ICT-producten zoals smartphones, computers en laptops heeft een
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Radio show “Hijack hour” about Bar Circular – Black Friday impact consciousness
Mines & Territory – Year Overview 2019 – Special Issue
Open MinEd – International Speakers Tour 2020
Lithium exploitation is drying out the world’s driest desert
Armenia: Amulsar, the Mountain where Water is more Precious than Gold
Press Release: Make ICT Fair Breakfast at the European Parliament
Mining in Azuay: a David vs. Goliath story
New report: A just(ice) transition is a post-extractive transition
War on Want and London Mining Network, supported by the Yes to Life, No to Mining network, have launched a new report: Post-Extractivist_Transition A just(ice) transition is a post-extractive transition Centering the extractive frontier in
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iPhone 11 Illegally Produced in China: Apple allows supplier factory Foxconn to violate labor laws
ESC Volunteer Vacancies – Become a Changemaker on Fair ICT
ESC Volunteer VacanciesChangemaker Fair ICTCampaigning and EducationCommunication CATAPA CATAPA is a volunteer movement which strives for a world in which the extraction of non-renewable resources is no longer necessary. The extraction of such materials always
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Mines & Territory, May 2019
From the polls to the tribunal: The farmers of Cajamarca suing mining multinational Angolgold Ashanti
Official communiqué to the public opinion legal action defending the ‘consulta popular’ of Cajamarca
Official communiqué to the public opinion legal action defending the 'consulta popular' of Cajamarca Today, Wednesday the 5th of June 2019, the corporation ‘Cajamarca Despensa Hídrica y Agrícola’, promotor of the Consulta Popular in Cajamarca,
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Mines & Territory, April 2019
Mines & Territory, March 2019
Mines & Territory, February 2019
The role BMW may play in creating a world-class environmental disaster in Ecuador
Fair ICT Flanders
This project is run by the non-profit organization CATAPA vzw, the umbrella organization of Flemish environmental groups Bond Beter Leefmilieu (Society for a Better Environment) and Ondernemers voor Ondernemers (Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs) and aims at improving the
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The irresponsibility of Vale has led to a second big mining disaster in Brazil
No Alto Maipo: Chile’s continued struggle against the mining industry for the right to water.
Neo-extractivism and repression of social protest in Bolivia
The struggle of indigenous students against large-scale mining industries in the Philippines – the case of ALCADEV
Mines & Territory, January 2019
Monthly online review on extractivist issues in Colombia Collection, summary and edition by Sam Packet and Karlijn Van den Broeck Download Mines & Territory, January 2019 here. We present you "Mines & Territory", our montly online review on
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